River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-05-12
WISCONSIN NEWS.

The city of Stevens Point has thirty
nine saloons.
Natural gas is to be bored for at Osh-
kosh.
The eight lumber mills at Wausau cut
about l30.0O0,000 feet annually.
At meeting held at Platteville. il
was voted TO have fair at Platteville
this fall
An eneampment of Odd Fellows will
be organized at Marinette during the
present month.
Mrs. Ann Welsh has sued the city of
Oshkosh for 81 900 damages for a fall
received on defective sidewalk.
Ten thousand dollars will be expend-
ed in the Improvement of the beach at
Neenah and Menasha the coming sea-
son.
A northern Wisconsin farmer has
commenced raising skunks. He claims
he can make money by selling their
skins
Within few days about thirty wolf
scalps have been taken 10 the Grant
county clerk Office Ofthese one-sixth
ale old ones.
While engaged in drunken ro3 at
Darlington, George Hazelton. had an
ear taken off by an opponeG. 1t was
done with one bite
Forty-seven applications for saloon
licenses and three for wholesale liauor
houses have been granted thus far this
season at Green Bay.
The Chicago, St. Paul. Minneapolis
y Omaha Railway company has pur-
chased property in West Superior for
its freight and passenger depots
There are eleven mills located in the
Chippewa region. OF them all but
one will be run this season. some of
them will employ night and day crews
Menasha has company looking to
the establishment of a national bank at
that place. Oshkosh and Menasha par
ties will furnish the capital of 500. 900.
The cornerstone of the new public
library at La Crosse, To cost the sum of
$4,000, the bequest of the late Cover
nor Washburn. viii he laid ut an early
date.
Agricultural association, of WATERFOWL.
have decided to hold the next annual
fair of the society Sept. 10 to ., inclu-
sive
Waukesha has taken boom this
spring. A large hotel. school-house,
and a mineral-water shipping establish
ment are among the improvements Ia
progress there.
Tramps captured a Young man nam
ed Peterson, who was on his way from
kaukauna to Dundas, robbed him IF
Sc and tied him to a tree. where he re-
! manned three hours.
The notorious Mrs Maggie O Council.
of Watertown, was recently arrested
for burglary, and lodged in Jefferson
Jail, Later she was sentenced to Wan
pun for year
w. j Ogle, clerk Of the town of
Oxford, Marquette county. has been
arrested, charged with tamperiDg with
the ballots before the recount of votes
for the town board
A saloon-keeper at Eland Junction
has adopted novel plan to ensure con-
gregations for the man who breaches at
that place. He offers glass of beer 10
all who viii attend church.
J. NJ. Hill, formerly well-known
coal merchant of Racine. is said to have
accumulated n fortune of 100000 in
Passadana, Cal, specializing in real
estate and conducting a fruit farm.
There are more men reported sicl on
the drive at Peshtigo this spring than
for any previous spring for years.
hardly day passing but one or more
of the boys come down on the sick list
Daniel Donovan, of LEROY. Dodge
county, has in his flock of sheep "A eve
which gave birth to five large and per
fectly-deyeloped lambs, three of which
are snow white aud the other two coal
black
The Wisconsin Central has finished
track laying on is GOgebic extension
to Hurley, and is pushing the con-
struction of the line to Bessemer.
Trains will viii run 10 Hurley regular
ly in few days.
The drawing Of the new building 10
be put up this summer at Grand Cross
ing. La Crosse, by the Chicago, Bur
lington & Northern Railroad company
for the use and the benefit of the en-
ployes, is completed
James Meehan was found dead on tho
floor of his room in the Adams house
at Wausau, The coroner's jury rem
dered a verdict that deceased came to
his death by falling out of bed and
striking his head on pail which stood
near by.
Surveyor Miller, Of Shawano, recent
~ had compass smashed by falling
tree. The instrument had been in use
for sixty years and was used in making
the first government survey in the east
ern part of the state.
Fred Stark. ten-Year-old boy eu1-
ployed on farm on Welch Prairie, in
juneau county, strayed in a storm
while looking for cows. On the second
day he was found about two miles from
New Lisbon, but only lived a short timo
after he was carried home.
The Wolf River Manufacturing COM
pany's works, at Waupaca, We're de-
stroyed by fire, Saturday. The loss on
buildings and stock was about $20, 900.
while the insurance, which was partly
in the Phoenix. OF Woodford, aggregat--
ed only $4,000. About forty men
were thrown ont Of employment.
At Appleton. in the case Of George
w. Pratt v. Oscar ID. Peck, before
the cirC nit court the jury has
rendered verdict for the plaintiff for
$9.6693J. Pratt had sawed and piled
400, 900 feet Of lumber under contract
with Peck, but the lumber was des-
troyed By lire before it was moved from
the yard. Peck refused to bay for ii,
and Pratt sued TO recover its value